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 Post subject: Re: Original: Your Latest Jewelry Creation! Lets See It!
PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 6:50 am 
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Stephen do you mean a wood working router? How do you do it?

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There are specific gem routers with various bits for hitting inside curves of cabs or cuttting channels. Mine is an Inland I got for 20 bucks at a flea market.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:31 pm 
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Colour treated green and blue diamonds, with white diamonds, moonstone and green tourmaline in 18kt gold and sterling silver. This was so much fun to make :)


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:27 pm 
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Very cool metal work, like the stone mix as well.


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This was so much fun to make

Funner to own. :wink:


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:52 pm 
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When I'm not dealing with gemology students or faculty, I enjoy the occasional woodworking project. Recently one of the instructors came to me with a pretty unusual idea to make a ring out of wood into the shape of an ice cream cone using a small Hessonite Garnet cab that she owned as the cherry on top. Always willing to tackle something fun, this is what I came up with.

It may not look like it, but there are 10 separate pieces including the stone. The woods used are padauk, maple and cocobolo with a 14ky bezel.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:01 pm 
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Paul that is super!
Seaman Schepps also made some fabulous jewels incorporating wood.
Check this out:
https://oakgem.com/products/seaman-sche ... f-bracelet


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Yummy, nice job Paul!


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:00 pm 
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Well, since you didn't seem to hate them, I'll throw a few more jewelry related wood projects in here for fun :)

Please forgive the photography, these are all taken with my phone for my own records as I don't sell or promote these, they are just made for friends or family as a hobby.

Caterpillar ring for my wife (she loves the critters)
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Black and white ebony ring with cat's eye Sillimanite
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Padauk and orange wood with large included Quartz
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Cocobolo with Danburite (cut by a member on this forum)
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Ring box for my wife's anniversary ring last year
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Ambrosia maple gemstone box with rotating lid and magnetic closure
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These are beyond fabulous.
What sort of cut is the colorless stone which appears to have pentagonal symmetry?


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My favorite is the ebony and sillimanite. Really really nice!

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Barbra Voltaire wrote:
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These are beyond fabulous.
What sort of cut is the colorless stone which appears to have pentagonal symmetry?


On this page, about halfway down you can find a pic and description of the stone from the cutter Bobsiv. He calls it an apex crown design:

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Wow - after a flurry of nice pieces posted, it has gotten a little quiet around here!

This is what my day job has kept me up to...

First, someone's 25 year old nugget wedding band we remade - probably weighs twice what the original did.

Did I mention I hate soldering nuggets?


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Here is a wedding band I made for a friend this summer, to match one for his wife earlier.

14K two-tone, 0.18 ct diamond.


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 11:33 am 
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Here is a recent project for a hospital charity event we participate in each year - 35th (emerald) anniversary for this event, so we used their logo with an emerald.

14K, 5 mm Columbian emerald, and 32 ideal cut diamonds.

One guy at the event bought $3,000 in raffle tickets for the pendant - and still didn't win!


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